Re: Ti-89 Died
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Re: Ti-89 Died
well, i wouldn't call that a virus or even virus-like. it's probably
something wring in the asm. i personally haven't installed tanks due to
the fact that it's a game written in basic, and basic is not for games.
uncon
Rahat 'The Rahat' Husain wrote:
>
> On Mon, 26 Oct 1998 18:16:27 -0600, unconnected <unconnected@usa.net>
> wrote:
>
> |um, i have had absolutely no problems with this program on my 89. i've
> |had it on ever since it came out. how exactly did u come to find this
> |out?
> |uncon
> |
>
> when the below mentioned happened i had 2 games: Mario92 and Tanks.
> When this situation happened, i was trying to delete tanks, however
> mario92 was on the var link when it crashed. yesterday i got a brand
> new replacement and today i got mario92, i had just finished playing a
> game of it, i pushed escape and 7 to quit, and it froze on the home
> screen wiht the busy icon highlighted, out of pure fear i took out the
> batteries immediately. waited 10 minutes and put them back in. it then
> worked correctly, i then used mem to reset all the memory, erasing
> mario92. i used the mem screen because i assumed using the var link
> screen would cause it to crash again.
>
> Begin below mentioned:
>
> My TI-89 just died, today when I was on the Varlink screen, with the
> listing of my directory, I pushed [2nd] and [Down-arrow] to get to
> Tanks, so I could delete it, when I did this the calculator promplty
> CRASHED! The only 4 buttons it would respond to were [2nd] [diamond],
> [alpha] and [whiteonblack up arrow], it would not turn off, or do
> anything at all, not even exit the Var-Link screen, and the busy sign
> was on. On the top there was a half an inch black line accross the
> screen, at the end with a 'Address Book' error. I then tried to take
> out all the batteries including the watch battery and push the reset
> button on the back. I put everything back in and now there's a
> different error 'Error Line:1111 Emulator' and there is no change in
> status except that now the contrast is very light, almost impossible
> to see, but I have good eyes. So I took the batteries out, except for
> the watch battery, and left them out for some 3 hours. I came home
> called up 1-800-TI-CARES and they told me that they would like to have
> mine to study for research, I myself have no problem with that, my
> problem is that they don't have one to replace mine. I'm going to try
> to go the store and have them replace it, hopefully I'm still within
> the 30 days period, unless of course someone knows how to fix it
> without violating the TI warranty (namely taking it apart). I'll
> probably have it returned by tomorow if I don't find out how to fix
> it. Incidently TI tells me that the default startup reset buttons are
> pusing the [on] button simulateneously with the [2nd] button and the
> [white on blue right arrow] button. HELP!
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